They keep trying to fix it, making it look nicer, run faster and do more things but in the end, it's just as lovable as a cripple without arms trying to push themselves on a one wheeled wheelchair up a flight of stairs.

Whats worse is that when you run that flaming heap of shit, it takes a really... long... time. Normally, thats expected from the application with as much appeal as a sweaty obese transvestite panting heavily in a gimp mask.

But in version 8, they reached a whole new level of brain-fucked senselessness when they decided to make a splash screen that takes up 3/4 of the screen and REMAINS ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE until it has finished loading.

Thank you IBM for crippling my PC to a state of uselessness. After a few times, it does get a little tiresome waiting for the loading screen to disappear.

To get rid of it, modify the shortcut to run "nlnotes.exe" instead of "notes.exe". The next time you run the retarded redhead child of an email client called Lotus Notes, the splash screen should be gone.

I was beginning to get too well acquainted with the Mozilla Quality Feedback Agent when my Thunderbird kept crashing randomly while either:

loading emails

viewing emails

deleting emails

completion of email downloads

and even upon closing of Thunderbird

It then began downloading the same email more than once after the crash, so I was getting annoyed at cleaning up after it.

Luckily, I found a way to fix it. As always, its a good idea to make a backup before making any changes.

As Thunderbird was still in a usable state, I right clicked the account which I suspected was corrupted and viewed the properties. On the "Server Settings" page, open up the "Local Directory" folder in Windows Explorer.

Now would be a good time to close Thunderbird.

Once in this folder, search for "*.msf" files and delete them. Don't worry, they are not email files, just index files which makes Thunderbird work faster.

Fire up Thunderbird again and view all your folders (ie. Inbox, Sent, Trash, etc). If you have alot of emails, it should take some time to rebuild the index files from your existing email data.If you deleted the index files from the corrupted inbox, then Thunderbird should be working fine.

If Thunderbird is still crashing, you can either continue hunting down the rogue account by deleting the index files for a specific account one by one, or you can delete ALL index files on ALL accounts. To do this, go to a "Local Directory" for one of your accounts, but backtrack up one folder back to the "Mail" directory and perform the "*.msf" search from there.

If all else fails, try emptying your "Trash" folder.

A few reasons why Thunderbird may have been corrupted are:

Power outage.

PC rebooted without closing Thunderbird properly.

Emails with strange formatting or structure, causing unreadable data to be added to the index file.